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Home My WebLink AboutAir Quality Advisory Board - Minutes - 11/28/2000ov^ �\- 0-7 MINUTES CITY OF FORT COLLINS AIR QUALITY ADVISORY BOARD REGULAR MEETING 281 N. COLLEGE AVE. November 28, 2000 For Reference: Eric Levine, Chair 229-5225 Scott Mason, Council Liaison 226-4824 Brian Woodruff, Staff Liaison 221-6604 Board Members Present Nancy York, John Schroeer, Eric Levine, Jim Dennison, Harry Edwards, Raymond Sons, Mandar Sunthankar, Linda Stanley Board Members Absent Chris Kavanaugh Staff Present Natural Resources Department Brian Woodruff, Terry Mahn, and Lucinda Smith Guests None The meeting was called to order at 4:35. Minutes The minutes of the October 24, 2000 meeting were unanimously approved as amended. Review and Update Action List 1. Memo to Council — Budget Priorities — Done 2. Memo to Council — Mason Street Master Plan - Pending (Brian will craft a "thank you for voting yes" memo) 3. Report to AQAB — Updating Population Growth Forecast — Woodruff explained the processes required for updating the forecast. Jim Dennison made the following motion: Move that the Air Quality Advisory Board recommend to City Council that realistic population growth estimates be used in City planning processes, including estimates for the 2025 Regional Transportation Plan. Projections of growth should emphasize growth trends in recent years. Linda Stanley seconded the motion. The motion was unanimously approved. 4. Explore "Thanks for not idling" campaign. — The Clean Air Team is interested and will find ways to incorporate it into Breathing Lessons, Climate Wise, and the City's Energy Management Committee. 5. Will the transportation model used for CO redesignation use updated population growth and Mobility Report Card Data? No — and this will be discussed later in the meeting. Review Council six-month planning calendar December 12, 2000 10-year Capital Improvement Plan January 23, 2001 Campus West Subarea Plan Unscheduled SH-14 Truck route Relocation Study TransFort Strategic Operating Plan Air Quality Advisory Board November 28, 2000 Page 2 Agenda Planning — Bike Depot Feasibility Study (Jan) — Climate Wise campaign results (Jan or Feb) — The Climate Wise partners, and the Cities for Climate Protection Plan will be honored by City Council on December 19. — Action Plan midcourse update — We have suggested the board look at this twice and make a recommendation to Council in January — Overview of education and marketing (Jan or Feb) CO Attainment Redesignation, Brian Woodruff Woodruff gave a brief presentation on the issues involved in CO redesignation, and asked the board how they would like to be involved in the process. Discussion • Levine: Who has demanded this timetable, and why are we on such a fast track? The State legislation requires that the state Air Quality Control Commission (Commission) and Air Pollution Control Division (Division) should expeditiously redesignate areas when they become eligible. Because we became eligible in 1993, the Commission and the Division are being taken to task for not doing this expeditiously. Staff has instructions from the City Manager's office to work with the state agencies for a smooth process, and to alert the City Manager and Council if there's something in the process that could hurt us. • Sunthankar: How are the standards set in the emission budget you are proposing? The North Front Range Council has the authority to propose that, and the only rule is it has to be consistent with this sort of chart. The total amount of emissions in the future has to fall below the maintenance level. • Edwards: Is it true a violation is based on air quality measurements? Does the new monitor envisioned by the City enter into this process at all? It does. We don't have to talk about the monitor in the context of writing this plan, however. That monitor, plus the existing monitor will provide data to check every year if we've violated the standard or not. • Levine: What are our opportunities to plug in some real population numbers? The opportunity is with regard to setting the emissions budget. We're obligated to work diligently with the Division to get the redesignation done and submitted. Once that's in place there's nothing to prevent us from filing an amendment. At that point, we could say "let's recalculate the emission budget in the maintenance plan". We can submit a revision. • Dennison: i would guess if they won't use the latest information on real population numbers now, then there's no chance that you'd convince them to go through five layers of bureaucracy to amend them later. Is there no chance that they would consider using the up-to-date (1998) Mobility Report Card? Is the decision to use the old population growth numbers in fixed in concrete, or does the MPO have a choice? Yes, it's cast in concrete. The choice was to use an adopted transportation plan as the basis. The 2020 Regional Plan is the current adopted plan. Even though we're getting ready to adopt a new transportation plan, for 2025, those are the numbers that are available. If we were to use numbers for the 2025 plan, that would throw the completion date into the next year. The November 2000 deadline is what's causing us to be locked in. • Sons: Does the modeling include vehicles we're getting from our neighbors, like Windsor? Yes, it does include intra-regional travel. If we're going to meet the time line we've agreed to, then we'll have to stick with the existing modeling. We will have the opportunity to amend, however — this type of amendment is not uncommon. Edwards: Will the next opportunity for this board to offer input be in March? Not necessarily. There are no constraints on the board It can be next month ifyou'd like. Edwards; Would it be appropriate to ask staff to give us an update at the next several meetings? We should be able to make a substantial presentation in January. Other Business • Smith: I would like to get feedback on some draft recommendations for Air Quality Action Plan mid -course correction before the January meeting, and I would like a final recommendation at the January meeting. • York: The agendas for other boards that are included in the packets arrive after the fact. Is there any way to receive the agendas in a more timely matter? Interested Board members can call the staff liaison of that board and request to be added to the agenda mailing list. Air Quality Advisory Board November 28, 2000 Page 3 • York: There is a hydrogen committee being formed. Mike Smith, Utilities, is spearheading the group. Would like for there be a representative from the AQAB on this committee. York volunteered for the position and the board agreed. Short Discussion Items • The December meeting was rescheduled to January 2, 2001 due to the Christmas holiday. Adjournment The meeting adjourned at 7:20 p.m. ACTION LIST — from November 28 meetin ACTION ITEM WHO BY... DONE 1. Memo to Council recommending Mason Street master Brian, Eric, December Elan Ray 2. Put info in packet from State Demographer on how Brian January they estimate area population growth 3. Advise City's hydrogen task force that AQAB Brian ASAP appoints Nancy York as its delegate C )CD - 1 1_ (3 1 AIR QUALITY ADVISORY BOARD DATE: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 LOCATION: 281 North College Avenue, Conference Room A TIME: 4:30 — 7:00 P.M. 4:30 Convene 1. Review and approve minutes of October 24, 2000 meeting 2. Review and update action list (appended to minutes) 3. Review Council six-month planning calendar 4. Agenda planning • Bike Depot Feasibility Study (Jan) • ClimateWise campaign results (Jan) 5:00 CO ATTAINMENT REDESIGNATION, Brian Woodruff NFR Planning Council will formally request redesignation in about May 2001. Since this action would revise the State Implementation Plan, the Board has a duty to advise both the City Council and the NFR Planning Council on the matter. Brian will provide background on the adoption process, technical issues, and policy issues. ACTION: Discussion only. Plan the Board's involvement. 5:45 BY-LAW AMENDMENTS, Eric Levine The Board's by-laws need to be amended in response to changing Council policy. Additional amendments would clean up obsolete provisions. Please review proposed amendments prior to the meeting (attached). ACTION: Amend AQAB by-laws 6:15 SHORT DISCUSSION ITEMS 1. December meeting... cancel? 2. Report from the Clean Fuels Task Force 3. LUTRAQ project — update 4. Second-hand smoke — update 7:00 ADJOURN